Re: dvd burning
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> I'm moving my first steps with Debian.
Christopher Nelson writes:
> Welcome to the community. If you have questions, this list is a good
> place to find answers :)
Thanks indeed ;)
Rodolfo:
>> As a Mandrake 10.1 user, I used to burn dvds as well as cds with cdrecord;
>> but now with Debian 3.1 it seems that I can't.
Christopher:
> Not with stock cdrecord as it's distributed by Debian.
Rodolfo:
>> In `/usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.DVD.Debian' it says:
>>
>>
>> cdrecord does not support DVD recording. If you need it you have the
>> following options:
>>
>> * cdrecord-ProDVD
Christopher:
> Never used this
Rodolfo:
>> * dvd+rw-tools
Christopher:
> This is what I have installed, but I haven't used it.
>
>> * dvdrtools
Christopher:
> This is what I used to use, and has similiar syntax to cdrecord, IIRC.
> 'dvdrecord dev=/dev/foo -[d,s,t]ao foo.iso'
Rodolfo:
>> * Apply the dvdrecord-patch to cdrecord and compile it yourself:
>> apt-get source cdrtools
>> cd cdrtools-<version>
>> fakeroot debian/rules dvd=yes cdrecord
Christopher:
> That shouldn't be too hard, but if a package works I'd use it instead.
Rodolfo:
>> What do you Debian users think is the best solution?
Christopher:
> If you want similiar syntax to cdrecord, dvdrtools has it--but it's
> non-free so make of that what you will. Since you're new to Debian, I
> don't know if you know how to enable 'non-free' (or 'contrib'), to do so
> edit '/etc/apt/sources.list' and append 'contrib non-free' (mind the
> hyphen) to your 'deb ....' and 'deb-src ....' lines. But I'd try
> dvd+rw-tools first, as free is better ;)
Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> this is what I have on an etch system;
>
> dpkg -l | grep dvd+
> ii dvd+rw-tools 6.1-2 DVD+-RW/R tools
>
> dpkg -l | grep cdr
> ii cdrdao 1.2.1-6 records CDs in Disk-At-Once (DAO) mode
> ii cdrecord 2.01+01a03-5 command line CD writing tool
>
> I would "assume" you could use the same. I burn dvd's from the shell,
> not from any gui.
Thanks indeed,
I've already started with dvd+rw-tools and think I'm going to use
this.
Cheers,
Rodolfo
P.S:: Christopher, it's not clear to me what you're using now after all... ;)
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